Hungarian Internet Book Reader (Viághalló 2004)

VILÁGHALLÓ (2004) is an open source Internet online reading system that makes texts on the Internet audible in Hungarian with artificially generated speech. VILÁGHALLÓ is a centrally managed integrated service that delivers available text to the listener as a combined text and audio stream (as a “text radio”) using a special voice-to-text synchronization protocol (wow) developed for this purpose. This ensures that you can navigate and scroll through the text and listen only the selected part. In 2004, the BME TMIT ProfiVox-diad synthesizer was used in the service. Later the Hungarian voice of the Flexvoice speech synthesiser (Mindmaker Kft, Hungary) has been integrated also to the service. This allowed the user to select a sound. An introduction to a contemporary screen is shown in the video in Hungarian below. Further details are avaailable in the Hungarian part.

Jaws for Windows

The Hungarian speech module of the Jaws for Windows (USA) screen reader software for the blind has been the Profivox speech synthesizer since 2002. JAWS for Windows screen reader allows visually impaired people to use your computer by reading keystrokes and on-screen messages. The key echo feature helps the blind user to write texts. The adjustable speech tempo adapts to the needs of blind users (from normal to very fast). The distributor of Jaws for Windows in Hungary is the Informatics Foundation for the Visually Impaired, whose president is Mihály Szuhaj in 2022. The ProfiVox speech synthesizer was later used in other Foundation applications (MAGic, ZoomText, DEX)

Further details are available in the Hungarian part.